It was a profitable and enjoyable evening at Target Field for Twins starter Mike Pelfrey.

He wasn’t optimistic about it.

“I’m obviously a little under the weather,” Pelfrey said Monday after working the first six innings of an 11-inning win over Detroit. “I woke up today, I wasn’t feeling great. Coming to the park, I was feeling kind of weak.”

Pelfrey, who said he does not expect to get another start this season, started the game with 146 2/3 innings pitched. He has a bonus clause that pays him $100,000 if he works 150 innings.

So he went out and worked six innings, yielding six hits and fanning five.

“I didn’t think I was going to have my fastball today,” he said. “I threw a lot of off-speed pitches. I thought that was the difference in the game, since I was able to do that.”

Pelfrey said he was not at all happy with his pitching earlier in September, so he wanted to finish with a strong outing.

“Our starting pitcher was fantastic tonight,” Gardenhire said. “He had a little flu bug. It didn’t look too pretty out there on the mound, but he did a fantastic job of hanging in there. That was fun to watch.”

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